SMi Group, the organisers of Global MilSatCom are proud to announce the Military Space USA Conference will take place in Los Angeles, June 11th and 12th 2019 – a key calendar meeting for Military Satellite professionals that are driving innovation across the space enterprise.

Featuring high level briefings from senior leadership across industry, government and allied partner states, Military Space USA will explore how organisational efforts such as SMC 2.0 are facilitating the space supremacy that is demanded by the warfighter.

Additionally, the conference will provide a forum for senior military and industry authorities to collaborate in the development, acquisition, deployment and sustainability of space-enabled communications that support allied objectives.

Exploring both provision of SATCOM and PNT, EO, COMSATCOM, Remote Sensing and Small Satellite Expansion – along with an assessment of the SSA and SST implications of these systems – Military Space USA will provide a holistic overview of developments in the 4th domain.

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8:00 Registration & Coffee

8:45 Chairman's Opening Remarks

Jay G. Santee is vice president, Strategic Space Operations, Defense Systems Group. In this role, he oversees the company’s support of the U.S. Air Force’s Space Warfighting Construct, which combines transformational and warfighting focused command initiatives to maintain space superiority in the 21st century. He also leads the corporation’s support to the Space Security and Defense Program and U.S. Strategic Command.

Prior to joining Aerospace, Santee was outcome leader for Resilient Affordable Space at MITRE, where he was responsible for directing and shaping MITRE’s contributions to the national security space enterprise’s fielding of a resilient, affordable space force.

Santee served 33 years in the United States Air Force, retiring as a major general in 2014. Santee’s last assignment was as deputy director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. In this capacity, he played a key leadership role in the removal and destruction of declared Syrian chemical weapons materials aboard the MV Cape Ray. Santee’s other assignments in the Air Force included, among others: acting deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy, vice commander of the 14th Air Force, Director of the Space Operations Center (now the Joint Space Operations Center), commander of the 21st Space Wing, and as an operations division chief at U.S. Space Command.

The Aerospace Corporation is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the objective application of science and technology toward the solution of critical issues affecting the nation’s space program.

Ms. Deanna L. Ryals is the Chief Partnership Officer, Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), Los Angeles, AFB CA. In this role, she is responsible for driving partnerships with Allies, Inter-Agencies and Commercial partners to fill capability and architectural gaps across the entire military space enterprise.

Previously, Ms. Ryals was the Chief, International Programs Division (MCI) in the MILSATCOM Systems Directorate (MC) at SMC. Ms. Ryals continues to perform these duties as SMC CPO. Major contributions include developing partnerships with nine allies across the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) and Advanced Extermely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite programs, executing $3B in international partner contributions, and spearheading the first ever Allied hosting of a US DoD National Security Space (NSS) payload for the Enhanced Polar SATCOM-Recapitalization program, bringing protected MILSATCOM to Allied warfighters in the polar region.
In 1988, she entered federal government service working for the Army Corps of Engineers. For more than 25 years, she has supported the Department of Defense (DoD) in both civil service and industry.

From 1988 to 2001, Ms. Ryals supported numerous Army and Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) organizations by providing acquisition and financial management support. In 2001, she joined the Secretary of the Air Force (SAF) Space Acquisition Directorate (AQS) monitoring the $10B MILSATCOM terminals acquisition portfolio. In 2007, she took over as the single SAF/AQ focal point for all MILSATCOM international activities, championing the development of MOUs with Australia culminating in a $6.2B partnership and five Allies culminating in a $10.5B partnership (the largest AF International Armaments Cooperative Program for a space capability) expanding the WGS constellation with two Allied funded satellites. In 2012, Ms. Ryals became the PM for Acquisition Strategy Development under the Air Force Program Executive Officer for Space Launch (AFPEO/SL) in Chantilly, Virginia. In this role, Ms. Ryals was instrumental in securing DoD Acquisition Executive approval of a new acquisition strategy for future DoD NSS launches that introduced a competitive environment for all certified U.S. launch service providers. Ms. Ryals rejoined MILSATCOM in January 2013, as the Chief of International Programs.

9:30 Keynote Address: The Future of the US Space Enterprise – Providing Joint Capability Around the Globe

Major General Stephen Whiting, Commander, 14th Air Force and Deputy Joint Space Component Commander, US Air ForceView Bio

As Commander, 14th Air Force, General Whiting leads more than 16,000 personnel responsible for providing strategic missile warning, nuclear command, control and communication, position, navigation and timing, space situational awareness, satellite operations, space launch and range operations. As Deputy JFSCC, he directs all assigned and attached USSTRATCOM space forces on behalf of the JFSCC, providing tailored, responsive and synchronized theater and global space effects in support of national security and combatant commander objectives. He is also responsible for protecting and defending critical U.S. and allied space capabilities.

General Whiting is a 1989 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is a space operations officer, and has commanded the 13th Space Warning Squadron, Clear Air Force Station, Alaska; the 614th Air and Space Operations Center/Joint Space Operations Center, Vandenberg AFB and the 21st Space Wing, Peterson AFB, Colorado.

The general’s staff assignments include positions at Headquarters, United States Air Force; United States Space Command; United States Strategic Command; the Chief of Naval Operations’ Strategic Studies Group; the Office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense; and Headquarters, Air Force Space Command.

The current remit of the 14th Air Force: C2, PNT, launch, SSA and SATCOM

Building a holistic approach to space across all stakeholders: collaboration between AFSC, 14th AF and SMC in procuring and delivering space-based enablers for the warfighter

SATCOM as a means to connect the warfighter and provide joint capability

Integrating commercial COMSATCOM to diversify communications for the warfighter and provide a more resilient network

Working to utilize new launch capability when providing sovereign capability post WGS

10:00 The Next Big Disruption In Space Is Happening on the Ground – Keeping the United States and Allies Ahead of Adversaries

Redefining “Ground” – the dynamic integration of capabilities

Delivery of new, innovative services faster and cheaper to Government customers and beyond

Stacy Kubicek is the Deputy Vice President for the Lockheed Martin Space Mission Solutions line of business, where she is responsible for approximately 2,500 employees and an annual sales base of over $525M, in addition to driving cross-Line of Business synergies and strategies.
Mission Solutions develops, delivers, and operates solutions for commercial, military and intelligence users. These mission critical efforts include development of innovative enterprise, cloud and application-based solutions for mission management, command and control, collection orchestration and tasking, processing, data analysis and analytics along with premier operations and sustainment of space-based programs.
Ms. Kubicek has an extensive background in program management, capture management, and execution of portfolios spanning the software development lifecycle. She has run programs for multiple Customers across both the Defense and Intelligence Communities, including negotiating and execution of international business.
Originally from Lincoln, Nebraska, Ms. Kubicek holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona, with minors in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. She holds an MBA, with a concentration in Information Technology, from the University of Denver. Stacy began her career with Lockheed Martin in Northern Virginia as a Software Engineer for the SI organization and has had the opportunity to work across several locations, including Colorado, Arizona, Maryland and Virginia.

Prior to becoming Project Manager, COL Kioutas graduated from the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Before attending the War College, he served in the Pentagon as the Chief of Staff for the Office of Process Innovation and Integration where he spearheaded the SECARMY and Chief of Staff of the Army's acquisition reform efforts.

COL Kioutas began his Army career in the Aviation branch, flying CH-47 Chinook helicopters, and commanding units in South Korea and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. After Company Command at Fort Bragg, and the Combined Logistics Captain's Career Course, he transitioned to the Acquisition Corps, and began his first acquisition assignment as a Combat Developer at the Army Cyber Center in Fort Gordon, Georgia. During this assignment, COL Kioutas began his longtime involvement with robotic and unmanned systems development which spanned the range of acquisition and command activities to include requirements development, science and technology development, program management, testing, sustainment, and operational command. Highlights include assignments as the Deputy Commander for Task Force Observe Detect Identify Neutralize (TF ODIN) in Iraq, the Product Manager Joint Robotics, the Product Manager Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, and the Product Manager Unmanned Aircraft Systems Modernization.

COL Kioutas is a native of Rolling Meadows, Illinois. He holds a BS from the United States Military Academy, West Point and Master's Degrees in Systems Engineering, Business Administration, Computer Information Systems, and Strategic Studies.

COL Kioutas is married to Shellie Kioutas, an Army veteran, with whom he raised four children; Alexa, Allina, Cassandra, and Nicko.

Arlen Biersgreen is an astronautical engineer with the Air Force Research Laboratories, Space Vehicles Directorate, Prototypes & Flight Experiments Branch (AFRL/RVEP). He currently serves as Program Manager for the Navigation Technology Satellite – 3 (NTS-3) program, which is the Air Force’s premier prototype in advanced technologies and concepts for resilient satellite navigation, planned for launch in 2022. Mr. Biersgreen has 11 years of experience as a defense contractor, federal civil servant, and production control manager in the aerospace manufacturing industry. He completed a M.S. in Astronautical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2016.

Previously, Kevin served as the director of the Assured PNT Cross-Functional team for the U.S. Army, where he was responsible for addressing the full-scope of Army PNT capabilities and challenges, reporting directly to the Under Secretary of the Army. Prior to this, Kevin served as the Direct Reporting program manager for PNT, where he created the Army’s Assured PNT Program and introduced the PNT System of Systems Architecture.

Prior to work with PNT initiatives, Kevin was the founder and chief executive officer for Harvest Applied Technologies, a company focused on the application of advanced sensor and signal processing technologies in the field of food safety and quality. He made significant contributions to this field with the support of federal agencies including the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, and the National Science Foundation. Kevin has also served in management and engineering roles in the defense industry in the fields of digital, radar, and electronic weapons systems design and automated testing. Kevin is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and served as a Force Reconnaissance team leader.

Kevin earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Florida. He is a member of the U.S. Army Acquisition Corps and has achieved Level III DAWIA certification for both program management and systems engineering. He’s also a member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institute of Navigation. Kevin has been very involved in IEEE technical societies and conferences and has participated as author and session chair at several conferences.

Prior to becoming Project Manager, COL Kioutas graduated from the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Before attending the War College, he served in the Pentagon as the Chief of Staff for the Office of Process Innovation and Integration where he spearheaded the SECARMY and Chief of Staff of the Army's acquisition reform efforts.

COL Kioutas began his Army career in the Aviation branch, flying CH-47 Chinook helicopters, and commanding units in South Korea and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. After Company Command at Fort Bragg, and the Combined Logistics Captain's Career Course, he transitioned to the Acquisition Corps, and began his first acquisition assignment as a Combat Developer at the Army Cyber Center in Fort Gordon, Georgia. During this assignment, COL Kioutas began his longtime involvement with robotic and unmanned systems development which spanned the range of acquisition and command activities to include requirements development, science and technology development, program management, testing, sustainment, and operational command. Highlights include assignments as the Deputy Commander for Task Force Observe Detect Identify Neutralize (TF ODIN) in Iraq, the Product Manager Joint Robotics, the Product Manager Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, and the Product Manager Unmanned Aircraft Systems Modernization.

COL Kioutas is a native of Rolling Meadows, Illinois. He holds a BS from the United States Military Academy, West Point and Master's Degrees in Systems Engineering, Business Administration, Computer Information Systems, and Strategic Studies.

COL Kioutas is married to Shellie Kioutas, an Army veteran, with whom he raised four children; Alexa, Allina, Cassandra, and Nicko.

Major Randall “Glint” Cartner, US Army, is the Assistant Space Portfolio Manager at the Assured PNT Cross Functional Team, US Army Futures Command. His 20 year career includes service in the US Air Force, Army National Guard and US Army, integrating technical capabilities at the operational and tactical levels of warfare, conducting space & nuclear missile operations, supporting special operations forces and administrating sensitive programs. His previous assignment was the Chief of the Space Operations Division for the Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of Marshall Islands.

Dr. Jacob Campbell is a Principal Electronics Engineer and is serving as the Resilient EGI (R-EGI) Chief Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB. Dr. Campbell received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University where he worked as a research associate for the Ohio University Avionics Engineering Center. While at Ohio University he interned with Honeywell Labs. His research interests positioning navigation and timing (PNT) architectures to enable robust & resilient PNT in GPS degraded environments.

Previously, Kevin served as the director of the Assured PNT Cross-Functional team for the U.S. Army, where he was responsible for addressing the full-scope of Army PNT capabilities and challenges, reporting directly to the Under Secretary of the Army. Prior to this, Kevin served as the Direct Reporting program manager for PNT, where he created the Army’s Assured PNT Program and introduced the PNT System of Systems Architecture.

Prior to work with PNT initiatives, Kevin was the founder and chief executive officer for Harvest Applied Technologies, a company focused on the application of advanced sensor and signal processing technologies in the field of food safety and quality. He made significant contributions to this field with the support of federal agencies including the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, and the National Science Foundation. Kevin has also served in management and engineering roles in the defense industry in the fields of digital, radar, and electronic weapons systems design and automated testing. Kevin is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and served as a Force Reconnaissance team leader.

Kevin earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Florida. He is a member of the U.S. Army Acquisition Corps and has achieved Level III DAWIA certification for both program management and systems engineering. He’s also a member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institute of Navigation. Kevin has been very involved in IEEE technical societies and conferences and has participated as author and session chair at several conferences.

The demand for trustworthy, reliable, and accurate Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) information in modern technologies

12:45 Networking Lunch

13:45 Space Object Behaviors (The View from the Ground)

Doug Hendrix is chief executive officer and co-founder of ExoAnalytic Solutions, Inc. In addition to his executive role, he serves as the Commercial Space sector president. For 25 years, Dr. Hendrix has developed advanced software solutions to enable the United States to maintain its technological superiority in EO/IR sensing for missile defense and space situational awareness. Dr. Hendrix has a broad professional background that ranges from research and development to commercial software development in the areas of atmospheric, underwater and nuclear explosions, hyper-velocity impacts, space weather, and the development of a commercial fusion reactor.
As a co-founder of ExoAnalytic Solutions, he had one major idea in mind for the company, which is to build a focused team comprised of the best and brightest in the industry to develop and field cutting edge technology to greatly surpass the state of the art. In his current role at ExoAnalytic Solutions, he remains deeply involved in technology development for both missile defense and space situational awareness.
Dr. Hendrix earned a B.A. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley and obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Irvine, and is the proud son of a former submarine officer.

Dr. Michael Starks is the Space Environment Mission Area Lead within the Space Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory. He provides strategic guidance and coordinates across the civil and DoD acquisition and operations communities to maximize the impact to the joint warfighter of the directorate’s space environment science and technology investment.
He is also the Program Manager and Principal Investigator for the Wave-Particle Interactions Program and leads the Laboratory’s technical efforts in attributing environmental anomalies to satellite systems. He has served as Deputy Space Situational Awareness Mission Area Lead and Principal Investigator for the Demonstrations and Science Experiments (DSX) flight experiment.
Dr. Starks began his civil service career in 1996 as an Air Force Senior Palace Knight fellow while still pursuing his Doctor of Science degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Upon receiving his ScD, he worked for AFRL as a bench scientist in wave propagation and signal processing at Hanscom AFB, Mass., before relocating to Kirtland AFB, N.M, in 2008.
He has authored or co-authored 19 peer-reviewed publications on various aspects of the space environment and is a licensed Professional Engineer

Dr. Jaime Stearns is the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate Space Control Mission Lead. She coordinates the Directorate’s research and development activities in Space Situational Awareness and Command & Control in support of defensive space operations.
Dr. Stearns joined the Space Vehicles Directorate of the AFRL as a National Research Council post-doctoral fellow. She became a civil servant a year later, founding and leading an AFOSR-funded research program using laser spectroscopy to explore new concepts for space propulsion and Space Situational Awareness.
She has authored or co-authored 24 peer-reviewed publications and holds an Associated Faculty position in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the University of New Mexico.

Doug Hendrix is chief executive officer and co-founder of ExoAnalytic Solutions, Inc. In addition to his executive role, he serves as the Commercial Space sector president. For 25 years, Dr. Hendrix has developed advanced software solutions to enable the United States to maintain its technological superiority in EO/IR sensing for missile defense and space situational awareness. Dr. Hendrix has a broad professional background that ranges from research and development to commercial software development in the areas of atmospheric, underwater and nuclear explosions, hyper-velocity impacts, space weather, and the development of a commercial fusion reactor.
As a co-founder of ExoAnalytic Solutions, he had one major idea in mind for the company, which is to build a focused team comprised of the best and brightest in the industry to develop and field cutting edge technology to greatly surpass the state of the art. In his current role at ExoAnalytic Solutions, he remains deeply involved in technology development for both missile defense and space situational awareness.
Dr. Hendrix earned a B.A. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley and obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Irvine, and is the proud son of a former submarine officer.

Capt Brittany Stackhouse is a Program Manager and lead for Space Situational Awareness Advanced Concepts, Space Superiority Systems Directorate, Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California. She leads a 40 member team executing over $110 Million in revolutionary Space Situational Awareness solutions to gain, maintain and exploit space superiority.

Capt Stackhouse entered active duty in 2012 through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program at the Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College. During her career, she has served as Program Manager for Launch and Test Range Systems providing critical space lift launch capabilities. Prior to her current assignment, she was a Project Manager for Space Command & Control directing development and deployment of capabilities to protect and defend national assets.

Col Patrick C. Williams is the Commander, 2d Weather Group, 557th Weather Wing, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. He leads more than 550 active duty, civil service and contract personnel comprised of six squadrons and eight geographically separated units on three continents. The group operates and sustains the Air Force’s $323 million strategic weather enterprise, delivering decision-quality, authoritative space and terrestrial environmental intelligence in support of national security objectives. Prior to his current assignment, Col Williams was the Space Branch Chief and Joint Staff Meteorological and Oceanographic Operations Officer on the Joint Staff. He was the Joint Chief of Staff’s focal point for all Department of Defense METOC activities and the Head of Delegation to NATO for METOC issues. Col Williams received his commission from the United States Air Force Academy in May 1998. He became well versed in aviation, space and Army weather operations and held a wide variety of positions to include squadron commander, command weather briefer, flight commander, staff weather officer, program element monitor, executive officer and aide-de-camp. Additionally, Col Williams also served two combat tours; the first in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM as a flight commander, in charge of two Battlefield Weather Teams. His second combat tour was in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM as the Squadron Commander of the 19th Expeditionary Weather Squadron in charge of 235 rotating Battlefield Weather Forecasters at 15 different Forward Operating Bases throughout Afghanistan.

An introduction to the 557th – organizational overview & its role within the wider USAF structure

SSA considerations for space operations: the demand to provide ‘terra firma’ levels of awareness in the fourth domain

Analysis of space weather – optimising satellite deployment through analysis and forecasting of the suns emissions

Providing future space weather support for commanders to enable decision superiority in space

15:30 Architecture Analysis for Enhancing Space Situational Awareness

Mr Richard Cobb, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, US Air Force Institute of TechnologyView Bio

Dr. Richard G. Cobb is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering with over 35 years of aerospace experience. Over the past 19 years at the Air Force Institute of Technology, he has taught graduate level courses in satellite design, optimal control, trajectory optimization, system identification and spacecraft control systems. Recent research work includes developing optimal trajectory plans for Global Strike missions, optimal aircraft air and ground collision avoidance algorithms for manned and unmanned systems, maneuver planning for satellite rendezvous and proximity operations, dynamics and control techniques for lightweight space optics and optimal/novel sensor systems and architectures for enhancing Space Situational Awareness.

16:00 Research and Development Across the Space Surveillance Enterprise

Dr. Grant H. Stokes is Head of the Space Systems and Technology Division of MIT Lincoln Laboratory. In this position, he is responsible for the Laboratory’s programs in space control and electro-optical systems and technology. In that capacity, Dr. Stokes supervised the demonstration and transition of the first space-based space-surveillance system to Air Force operations and has initiated programs to develop next-generation technology for establishing Space Situation Awareness (SSA). These programs include the Space Surveillance Telescope (SST), which will provide a 3.5-meter aperture prototype ground-based space surveillance search system, and a program to upgrade the Haystack Radar to W-band operations, yielding high resolution radar images of satellites.
Dr. Stokes has been a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). In that capacity, he was the Chairman of the 2006 SAB Summer Study on Space Survivability. In addition, he chaired the 2006 Science and Technology Review of the VS Directorate of Air Force Research Laboratory and the 2007 review of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).
Dr. Stokes was honored with the Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award for his four years of service to the Air Force Science Advisory Board.
Dr. Stokes was appointed an IEEE Fellow in 2010 for his leadership in the development and implementation of advanced space search systems.
Dr. Stokes was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2016 for innovations in systems for space situational awareness and the discovery of near-Earth asteroids.
Dr. Stokes directs the development and operations of the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program, which, as part of the NASA/Space Command partnership, has become the world’s premiere asteroid search capability, finding ~50% of the near-Earth asteroids discovered since 1998.
Dr. Stokes holds a Ph.D. degree in physics from Princeton University and is a member of the International Astronomical Union.

17:30 Hybrid Approaches to the ROK’s SATCOM Capability

Lt. Col. Yun Kyong Sung is an army officer in Republic of Korea. He graduated from the Korea Military Academy in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science degree in electronics. He obtained a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2004. He has served as a signal officer in the various echelons of ROK Army and also worked as an acquisition officer in Defense Acquisition Program Administration. Since 2018, he has been working in C4I division of ROK JCS.

Current capability: LTE services and the need to exploit COMSATCOM

services to a greater extent

Minimising the threat of jamming – developing more resilient and robust communications

18:00 Space Policy of Japan

Mr. Hirohisa Mori is Director of National Space Policy Secretariat, Cabinet Office of Japan. This is the second time for him to work at this office since 2008-2010. Prior to current position, he had worked at Ministry of Defense as a government official since his graduation of Bachelor of Law, Tokyo University in 1992. His responsibility covers policy, legal and international affairs related to Self Defense Force. He served as First Secretary at Japanese Embassy in Canada, and as Visiting Research Fellow at International National Strategic Study, National Defense University of USA.

Introduction of Japanese Space Policy

QZSS status and way ahead

Revised defence guidelines and midterm project

US-Japanese defence cooperation moving forward

18:30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

Jay G. Santee is vice president, Strategic Space Operations, Defense Systems Group. In this role, he oversees the company’s support of the U.S. Air Force’s Space Warfighting Construct, which combines transformational and warfighting focused command initiatives to maintain space superiority in the 21st century. He also leads the corporation’s support to the Space Security and Defense Program and U.S. Strategic Command.

Prior to joining Aerospace, Santee was outcome leader for Resilient Affordable Space at MITRE, where he was responsible for directing and shaping MITRE’s contributions to the national security space enterprise’s fielding of a resilient, affordable space force.

Santee served 33 years in the United States Air Force, retiring as a major general in 2014. Santee’s last assignment was as deputy director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. In this capacity, he played a key leadership role in the removal and destruction of declared Syrian chemical weapons materials aboard the MV Cape Ray. Santee’s other assignments in the Air Force included, among others: acting deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy, vice commander of the 14th Air Force, Director of the Space Operations Center (now the Joint Space Operations Center), commander of the 21st Space Wing, and as an operations division chief at U.S. Space Command.

The Aerospace Corporation is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the objective application of science and technology toward the solution of critical issues affecting the nation’s space program.

18:45 Drinks Reception Hosted by SMi Group

8:00 Registration & Coffee

8:45 Chairman's Opening Remarks

Colonel Russell Teehan is the Portfolio Architect of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC). He leads a team of roughly 100 personnel charged with spearheading the Center’s activities to design an integrated space enterprise architecture and partner with other commercial, allied, government agencies and our industry partners to enable SMC to smartly design, rapidly acquire, and expeditiously integrate the weapon systems needed to support today’s fight and the battlefield of tomorrow. Col Teehan was commissioned in 1993 by USAF Academy. His career has included a variety of assignments ranging from basic weapons research at Air Force Research Laboratory, teaching Physics at USAF Academy, special programs management at the Space and Missiles Systems Center, and a multitude of Air Staff and OSD Pentagon staff assignments. He recently served as the Commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory Phillips Research Site where he led a team of 800 personnel and an annual budget of $300 million focused on advancing technologies to prototype the next generation of Air Force space capabilities. Col Teehan has two wonderful daughters – Emma (18) and Addyson (13).

9:00 Keynote Address: Integrating Space Support into U.S. THIRD Fleet Operations

A Naval Academy and Oxford University graduate, CAPT Mike Mattis is a submariner also qualified as an Information Warfare (Space Cadre) Officer. Serving on Active Duty for 8 years before becoming a Reservist, he Commands Navy Reserve, Commander US THIRD Fleet Headquarters working integration of Space into maritime operations. He worked at Accenture for 16 years supporting space and cyber security programs leading teams supporting the integration and launch of two commercial imagery satellites, the Navy’s acquisition of two meteorological satellites, and acquisition, development, launch and on-orbit checkout of five MUOS satellites as well as consulting on cyber security projects.

Introduction to U.S. THIRD Fleet and its AOR

Currently deployed systems in support of fleet operations

BLOS considerations for SATCOM, PNT and other space-enabled technology when deployed in expeditionary operations

MUOS support to the Navy's on-the-move requirements

Collaboration between CF3, SPAWAR and SMC on enabling space capabilities

Col Jeremy Raley has spent over 20 years ensuring the Air Force and Department of Defense have the communication, sensing, space superiority, reconnaissance, and command and control systems needed to provide a decisive military advantage for the United States and her allies. He earned a Ph.D. from the Electrical Engineering Department of the Air Force Institute of Technology and has applied his education to research and development activities at the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the National Reconnaissance Office. He is currently stationed at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico.

Overview of US Air Force Research Laboratory Space Experimentation

Applying C2 models to the space domain: providing commanders with information to quickly make decisions – applying programmes like Hallmark-TC2

Overcoming cyber and kinetic disruption to assure availability of space support capabilities

The cost of resilience and how diverse experimentation can reduce those costs

Final concluding thoughts

10:00 Assured C2 – How do you Know?

Dr. Baker joined the USMC in 1976, served as an Electronic Countermeasures Officer in the EA-6B Prowler, and retired in 2000. He has worked in data acquisition, instrumentation automation, and aircraft systems test and evaluation. His current assignment is Senior Principal Engineer with the Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity providing engineering support for USMC C4 systems test and engineering. He has published over 20 journal and conference papers on electrically small antenna design and optimization. His education includes a BS Electrical Engineering, an MS Systems Engineering, an MS National Resource Strategy, and a PhD Electrical Engineering.

Operating GPS in contested and hybrid environments from a Marine’s perspective

Jamming and spoofing: how do you know its happening, how do we monitor effectiveness and maintain effective C2

Assuredness for PNT for the warfighter

Gaps in system-of-systems requirements for future capabilities for the warfighter

10:30 Morning Coffee

11:00 New Zealand's Space Policy

After 30 years in the commercial world, including 12 years as a reservist, the initial post with the RNZN was managing projects in Navy Capability, delivering Sat TV, Wide band Satellite, and RHIB Tracking systems, before going to sea on HMNZS Te Kaha. A two year posting to the ANZAC Systems Program Office in Rockingham WA added interoperability and maintenance skills. Returning to NZ to work with Maritime lead, introducing new projects, such as Maritime Mission Critical Internet before joining C4ISR and being responsible for development and management of NAVWAR and Sat Coms capability for NZDF.

11:30 UK Space Capability – Key Considerations

Joining the RAF in 1991 as an RAF Regiment Officer he fulfilled a number of Flight Commander roles before he sustained an injury that precluded him from staying in the RAF Regiment. He transferred to the Operations Support (Flight Operations) specialization on its inception on 1 Apr 1997 and as a Flight Operations Officer he has served at multi-engine, fast-jet and rotary-wing aircraft units. Operational tours have included Kosovo and multiple tours in Afghanistan. Staff tours have included Headquarters, instructional and Career Management roles.
On promotion to Wing Commander he was selected for Advanced Command and Staff Training and has served on the Air Staff in the Ministry Of Defence where he was responsible for RAF International Policy and engagement for North and South America, Australasia, South East Asia and the Far East regions. He served in a unique Command role at RAF Shawbury as Officer Commanding of both Operations Wing and Administration Wing and also Deputy Station Commander. A tour in Air Resources and Plans followed Command, during which he conducted a 3 month Secondment with KPMG, and he was Chief Of Staff in the RAF Transformation Team before taking on the role of SO1 Space within the Air Capability area at HQ Air Command.

Setting up the National Space Operations Centre (SPOC) – delivering a roadmap for technical transformation of UK space capability

Partnerships in space: how the UK has enhanced collaboration

12:00 The Future of Rapid Acquisition for AFRL

Ms. Loper presently serves as the principal acquisition program manager for the Space Vehicles Directorate at Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She recently led a $340M Contract Award effort for the Integrated Experiments and Evaluation Division, launched the initial AFRL collaborative Commercially Augmented Mission Operations (CAMO) Campus and Commercial Consortium, and supported the AFRL Space Accelerator program. Ms. Loper possess over 10 years of program management experience across the space enterprise. From 2009 – 2013, she served as the program integrator and segments lead for the U.S. DoD Enhanced Polar Protected SatComm System and returned to SATCOM in the Wideband Program Office in 2016. She joined the U.S. Government as a Presidential Management Fellow 2008 at the Space and Missile System Center in Los Angeles from a 6-year position in Germany, where she managed operations in Kuwait, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq as a support services contractor.

12:30 A New Chapter in Government Procurement of Commercial Satellite Communications (COMSATCOM) Solutions

Clare A. Grason is Chief, Commercial Satellite Communications Office, Air Force Space Command, Washington, D.C. She is responsible for delivering commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) capabilities to support the joint warfighter, federal agencies and international partners. Her portfolio includes the Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services (EMSS) Program Office, the EMSS Capabilities Office and the COMSATCOM Solutions Group.

EMSS is an $800 million global satellite program that provides the Department of Defense, federal and coalition partners with unlimited access to the commercial Iridium constellation, a mesh-network of 66 on-orbit cross-linked satellites in low-earth-orbit, through a dedicated, EMSS controlled gateway.
The COMSATCOM Solutions Group acquires any commercial satellite capability for any customer, anywhere, and has $5 billion under management.

Prior to this role, Ms. Grason was the SATCOM Division Chief, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). In this role she managed the Department of Defense Enterprise Gateways Program Office, the SATCOM Operations Integration Branch, and the COMSATCOM portfolio described above, prior to its Congressionally-directed transfer to the AFSPC. Other assignments include Program Manager, EMSS and Program Manager for a classified telecommunications system within DISA’s National Leadership Command Capabilities Center (NLCC). Ms. Grason began her career in government with DISA as a contracting officer, and served as the Chief, Special Projects Contracting Branch, which held a contracts portfolio valued at over $2 billion.

Prior to joining the government, Ms. Grason was a retirement funds analyst for T. Rowe Price.

Ms. Grason received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from West Virginia University, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Ms. Grason is DAWIA Level 3 certified in contracting.

Move from DISA to the command structure at AFSPC - starting the new chapter

13:00 Networking Lunch

14:00 Space in a New Era of Great Power Competition

Dr. Mir Sadat is a Director of Defense Policy and Strategy at the U.S. National Security Council, where he leads the interagency on defense/space/maritime policy. Mir has over two decades of competitive corporate world, university, and defense/military experiences. His key assignments include Space Policy Strategist to the Chief of Naval Operations; Space Operations Officer to the Commander of U.S. Tenth Fleet; Special Advisor to the DIA Director; Strategic Advisor to the ISAF/USFOR-A Commander; and Professor of National Security Policy. Mir possesses native fluency in Dari and German, and holds a PhD from Claremont Graduate University.

Ms. Demaryl D. Singleton is the Program Manager (PM) of the DoD Teleport Program Office (TPO), within the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). DoD Teleport is a $3.1B program and one of two Acquisition Category I (ACAT I) programs at DISA. Through a multigenerational, evolutionary development approach, TPO integrates and implements satellite terminals and the ground station baseband equipment to enable secured voice, data, and video communications to deployed warfighters enhancing situational awareness and information superiority. As the PM, Ms. Singleton leads the program and is responsible for the design, development, system engineering, acquisition testing, integration, implementation and life cycle management of the Teleport System to satisfy Joint Requirements Oversight Council validated operational requirements. Ms. Singleton was appointed as PM in November 2015. Ms. Singleton previously served as the Deputy Program Manager for the DoD Teleport Program. Ms. Singleton previously deployed and served dual-headed as the 408th Deputy Commander/Deputy Director of Contracting Army Contracting Command – Kuwait. While in this role, she held an unlimited contracting officer warrant providing direct contracting support to ARCENT, Office of Military Cooperation-Kuwait, Defense Representation-Pakistan, US Embassy and general support to other units in the CENTCOM AOR. Ms. Singleton led and mentored Military, DoD civilians and contractors in planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, and supervising all actions required to provide approximately $55 million annually in contracting support for Operations Enduring Freedom, Defense of Kuwait, and ARCENT multi-national exercises. Ms. Singleton previously served as a Loaned Executive on detail to the Combine Federal Campaign (CFC) for the Chesapeake Bay Area providing intensive planning, training, management, marketing, program implementation, reporting, and evaluation in fund raising. Her efforts led the team to exceed the overall goal of $6.7 million for a total amount $6.8 million dollars for Chesapeake Bay Area CFC and ranked 3rd in the country for the 2011 CFC Campaign. Ms. Singleton also served as a Supervisory Program Analyst while assigned to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), providing acquisition oversight and budget execution in support of the transformation efforts for the Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staffs initiatives for the Chief Technology Officer. She also served as a Program Manager for Acquisition of Services in the Program Executive Office, Satellite, Teleport and Services (PEO-STS) and Chief of Contract Management Branch, GIG Enterprise Services Engineering for DISA. In addition, she has served a Contracting Officer for the United States Air Force, Navy, Army and General Services Administration. Ms. Singleton holds a B.S. in Management from Park University and a Master’s Degree in Procurement and Acquisition Management, Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) with an emphasis in Information Technology Management from Webster University 2012. While working for the Department of Defense, Ms. Singleton completed the Executive Program Managers Course (EPMC) PMT-402 November 2018 and the Program Managers (PMT) 10-week Course November 2017. She obtained her DAWIA Level III Certification in Contracting, Information Technology Management and Program Management from the Defense Acquisition University (DAU). She is a member of the Defense Acquisition Corps, American Society of Military Comptrollers Association and Defense Acquisition University voting member. Ms. Singleton holds numerous awards to include a Commanders Award for Civilian Service Deployment, Civilian of the Year Air Force Academy (1992) and a Civilian Meritorious award from the Navy for she played a major role in the implementation of the Navy wide Star Service Program (1998).

15:00 Transforming Future Space Propulsion

Dr. Natalya Bailey is the CEO and co-founder at Accion Systems. Accion provides in-space propulsion engines for satellites and spacecraft. An Oregon native, Dr. Bailey moved to Cambridge, MA to complete her doctorate in space propulsion at MIT’s Space Propulsion Laboratory where she helped invent the first working prototype of an ion engine technology for small satellites, the first product at Accion. Prior to MIT, she assisted with the development of a chemical rocket that formed the basis for a start up. Dr. Bailey also has an M.S. from Duke University and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from San Diego State University.

Current architectural approaches in propulsion system design & ambitions for next generation systems

15:30 Afternoon Tea

As Senior Vice President of Global Launch Services, Lars Hoffman is responsible for driving business development and customer experience strategy for Rocket Lab. With more than 30 years of experience in national security and aerospace, Lars has a deep knowledge of the launch industry.

Prior to joining Rocket Lab, Lars most recently oversaw government sales at SpaceX, where he was responsible for National Security Space strategy and business development. Lars also led a distinguished career in the United States Air Force. He holds advanced engineering degrees from the United States Air Force Academy, the Air Force Institute of Technology and the United States Air Force Test Pilot School. He has also earned national security degrees from MIT, Air University and the National Defense University and an MBA from UCLA.

Achieving better access to space – what this means within the context of the small satellite mega constellation era

16:30 Plug and Play CubeSats: Showcasing Ingenuity and Transforming the Landscape of Space

Michael is currently the Chief Innovation Officer at NanoRacks, LLC, where he is responsible for overseeing the technical, scientific, and imaginative direction for the company. He has developed, built, and flown experiment platforms to the ISS, including the NRCSD (the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer) system which deploys satellites from the ISS, a satellite deployer that deploys satellites off the Northrup Grumman Cygnus spacecraft, as well as a number of unique space platforms that enable space-based science, research, and education.

Enabling small payloads to be plugged into platforms to provide through life servicing through new capabilities

Working collaboratively across industry to standardize architectural and design approaches

Delivering a truly global IoT through the utilization of CubeSat megaconstellations

Where increased connectivity can bring additional advantages at the terrestrial level – ensuring that constellations are robust enough for military partners

17:00 Enterprise Management and Control – Delivering Value to the Enterprise

Liuetenant Colonel Gary Thompson advises and assists the Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) Systems Directorate on matters concerning business practices to procure commercial satellite communications services and technology demonstrations to enable order of magnitude improvements in these commercial systems for DoD use. He also supports enterprise cryptographic solutions to include developing new architectures and modernization of legacy cryptographic systems.

Major Thompson entered the Air Force in 1999 as a graduate of Officer Training School following 7 years of service in the Minnesota Army National Guard. He has served in a variety of acquisition, business, information assurance and staff positions at Air Force Materiel Command and Air Force Space Command. He was mobilized in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. While deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, he served under United States Central Command at the 332nd AEW, Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan and the International Security Assistance Force. Major Thompson transitioned from active duty to the Air Force Reserves in 2009 where he continues to support MILSATCOM systems.

Current timelines for the block 0 demonstrations and planning and operating to deliver COMSATCOM moving forward

17:30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two

Colonel Russell Teehan is the Portfolio Architect of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC). He leads a team of roughly 100 personnel charged with spearheading the Center’s activities to design an integrated space enterprise architecture and partner with other commercial, allied, government agencies and our industry partners to enable SMC to smartly design, rapidly acquire, and expeditiously integrate the weapon systems needed to support today’s fight and the battlefield of tomorrow. Col Teehan was commissioned in 1993 by USAF Academy. His career has included a variety of assignments ranging from basic weapons research at Air Force Research Laboratory, teaching Physics at USAF Academy, special programs management at the Space and Missiles Systems Center, and a multitude of Air Staff and OSD Pentagon staff assignments. He recently served as the Commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory Phillips Research Site where he led a team of 800 personnel and an annual budget of $300 million focused on advancing technologies to prototype the next generation of Air Force space capabilities. Col Teehan has two wonderful daughters – Emma (18) and Addyson (13).

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A Naval Academy and Oxford University graduate, CAPT Mike Mattis is a submariner also qualified as an Information Warfare (Space Cadre) Officer. Serving on Active Duty for 8 years before becoming a Reservist, he Commands Navy Reserve, Commander US THIRD Fleet Headquarters working integration of Space into maritime operations. He worked at Accenture for 16 years supporting space and cyber security programs leading teams supporting the integration and launch of two commercial imagery satellites, the Navy’s acquisition of two meteorological satellites, and acquisition, development, launch and on-orbit checkout of five MUOS satellites as well as consulting on cyber security projects.

Col Jeremy Raley has spent over 20 years ensuring the Air Force and Department of Defense have the communication, sensing, space superiority, reconnaissance, and command and control systems needed to provide a decisive military advantage for the United States and her allies. He earned a Ph.D. from the Electrical Engineering Department of the Air Force Institute of Technology and has applied his education to research and development activities at the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the National Reconnaissance Office. He is currently stationed at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico.

Colonel Russell Teehan is the Portfolio Architect of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC). He leads a team of roughly 100 personnel charged with spearheading the Center’s activities to design an integrated space enterprise architecture and partner with other commercial, allied, government agencies and our industry partners to enable SMC to smartly design, rapidly acquire, and expeditiously integrate the weapon systems needed to support today’s fight and the battlefield of tomorrow. Col Teehan was commissioned in 1993 by USAF Academy. His career has included a variety of assignments ranging from basic weapons research at Air Force Research Laboratory, teaching Physics at USAF Academy, special programs management at the Space and Missiles Systems Center, and a multitude of Air Staff and OSD Pentagon staff assignments. He recently served as the Commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory Phillips Research Site where he led a team of 800 personnel and an annual budget of $300 million focused on advancing technologies to prototype the next generation of Air Force space capabilities. Col Teehan has two wonderful daughters – Emma (18) and Addyson (13).

Lt. Col. Yun Kyong Sung is an army officer in Republic of Korea. He graduated from the Korea Military Academy in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science degree in electronics. He obtained a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2004. He has served as a signal officer in the various echelons of ROK Army and also worked as an acquisition officer in Defense Acquisition Program Administration. Since 2018, he has been working in C4I division of ROK JCS.

After 30 years in the commercial world, including 12 years as a reservist, the initial post with the RNZN was managing projects in Navy Capability, delivering Sat TV, Wide band Satellite, and RHIB Tracking systems, before going to sea on HMNZS Te Kaha. A two year posting to the ANZAC Systems Program Office in Rockingham WA added interoperability and maintenance skills. Returning to NZ to work with Maritime lead, introducing new projects, such as Maritime Mission Critical Internet before joining C4ISR and being responsible for development and management of NAVWAR and Sat Coms capability for NZDF.

As Commander, 14th Air Force, General Whiting leads more than 16,000 personnel responsible for providing strategic missile warning, nuclear command, control and communication, position, navigation and timing, space situational awareness, satellite operations, space launch and range operations. As Deputy JFSCC, he directs all assigned and attached USSTRATCOM space forces on behalf of the JFSCC, providing tailored, responsive and synchronized theater and global space effects in support of national security and combatant commander objectives. He is also responsible for protecting and defending critical U.S. and allied space capabilities.

General Whiting is a 1989 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is a space operations officer, and has commanded the 13th Space Warning Squadron, Clear Air Force Station, Alaska; the 614th Air and Space Operations Center/Joint Space Operations Center, Vandenberg AFB and the 21st Space Wing, Peterson AFB, Colorado.

The general’s staff assignments include positions at Headquarters, United States Air Force; United States Space Command; United States Strategic Command; the Chief of Naval Operations’ Strategic Studies Group; the Office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense; and Headquarters, Air Force Space Command.

Mr. Hirohisa Mori is Director of National Space Policy Secretariat, Cabinet Office of Japan. This is the second time for him to work at this office since 2008-2010. Prior to current position, he had worked at Ministry of Defense as a government official since his graduation of Bachelor of Law, Tokyo University in 1992. His responsibility covers policy, legal and international affairs related to Self Defense Force. He served as First Secretary at Japanese Embassy in Canada, and as Visiting Research Fellow at International National Strategic Study, National Defense University of USA.

Jay G. Santee is vice president, Strategic Space Operations, Defense Systems Group. In this role, he oversees the company’s support of the U.S. Air Force’s Space Warfighting Construct, which combines transformational and warfighting focused command initiatives to maintain space superiority in the 21st century. He also leads the corporation’s support to the Space Security and Defense Program and U.S. Strategic Command.

Prior to joining Aerospace, Santee was outcome leader for Resilient Affordable Space at MITRE, where he was responsible for directing and shaping MITRE’s contributions to the national security space enterprise’s fielding of a resilient, affordable space force.

Santee served 33 years in the United States Air Force, retiring as a major general in 2014. Santee’s last assignment was as deputy director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. In this capacity, he played a key leadership role in the removal and destruction of declared Syrian chemical weapons materials aboard the MV Cape Ray. Santee’s other assignments in the Air Force included, among others: acting deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy, vice commander of the 14th Air Force, Director of the Space Operations Center (now the Joint Space Operations Center), commander of the 21st Space Wing, and as an operations division chief at U.S. Space Command.

The Aerospace Corporation is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the objective application of science and technology toward the solution of critical issues affecting the nation’s space program.

Clare A. Grason is Chief, Commercial Satellite Communications Office, Air Force Space Command, Washington, D.C. She is responsible for delivering commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) capabilities to support the joint warfighter, federal agencies and international partners. Her portfolio includes the Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services (EMSS) Program Office, the EMSS Capabilities Office and the COMSATCOM Solutions Group.

EMSS is an $800 million global satellite program that provides the Department of Defense, federal and coalition partners with unlimited access to the commercial Iridium constellation, a mesh-network of 66 on-orbit cross-linked satellites in low-earth-orbit, through a dedicated, EMSS controlled gateway.
The COMSATCOM Solutions Group acquires any commercial satellite capability for any customer, anywhere, and has $5 billion under management.

Prior to this role, Ms. Grason was the SATCOM Division Chief, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). In this role she managed the Department of Defense Enterprise Gateways Program Office, the SATCOM Operations Integration Branch, and the COMSATCOM portfolio described above, prior to its Congressionally-directed transfer to the AFSPC. Other assignments include Program Manager, EMSS and Program Manager for a classified telecommunications system within DISA’s National Leadership Command Capabilities Center (NLCC). Ms. Grason began her career in government with DISA as a contracting officer, and served as the Chief, Special Projects Contracting Branch, which held a contracts portfolio valued at over $2 billion.

Prior to joining the government, Ms. Grason was a retirement funds analyst for T. Rowe Price.

Ms. Grason received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from West Virginia University, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Ms. Grason is DAWIA Level 3 certified in contracting.

Joining the RAF in 1991 as an RAF Regiment Officer he fulfilled a number of Flight Commander roles before he sustained an injury that precluded him from staying in the RAF Regiment. He transferred to the Operations Support (Flight Operations) specialization on its inception on 1 Apr 1997 and as a Flight Operations Officer he has served at multi-engine, fast-jet and rotary-wing aircraft units. Operational tours have included Kosovo and multiple tours in Afghanistan. Staff tours have included Headquarters, instructional and Career Management roles.
On promotion to Wing Commander he was selected for Advanced Command and Staff Training and has served on the Air Staff in the Ministry Of Defence where he was responsible for RAF International Policy and engagement for North and South America, Australasia, South East Asia and the Far East regions. He served in a unique Command role at RAF Shawbury as Officer Commanding of both Operations Wing and Administration Wing and also Deputy Station Commander. A tour in Air Resources and Plans followed Command, during which he conducted a 3 month Secondment with KPMG, and he was Chief Of Staff in the RAF Transformation Team before taking on the role of SO1 Space within the Air Capability area at HQ Air Command.

Captain Brittany Stackhouse

Program Manager, SMC, US Air Force

Capt Brittany Stackhouse is a Program Manager and lead for Space Situational Awareness Advanced Concepts, Space Superiority Systems Directorate, Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California. She leads a 40 member team executing over $110 Million in revolutionary Space Situational Awareness solutions to gain, maintain and exploit space superiority.

Capt Stackhouse entered active duty in 2012 through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program at the Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College. During her career, she has served as Program Manager for Launch and Test Range Systems providing critical space lift launch capabilities. Prior to her current assignment, she was a Project Manager for Space Command & Control directing development and deployment of capabilities to protect and defend national assets.

Captain Michael Mattis

Space Lead Commander, Third Fleet, US Navy

A Naval Academy and Oxford University graduate, CAPT Mike Mattis is a submariner also qualified as an Information Warfare (Space Cadre) Officer. Serving on Active Duty for 8 years before becoming a Reservist, he Commands Navy Reserve, Commander US THIRD Fleet Headquarters working integration of Space into maritime operations. He worked at Accenture for 16 years supporting space and cyber security programs leading teams supporting the integration and launch of two commercial imagery satellites, the Navy’s acquisition of two meteorological satellites, and acquisition, development, launch and on-orbit checkout of five MUOS satellites as well as consulting on cyber security projects.

Colonel Jeremy Raley

Col Jeremy Raley has spent over 20 years ensuring the Air Force and Department of Defense have the communication, sensing, space superiority, reconnaissance, and command and control systems needed to provide a decisive military advantage for the United States and her allies. He earned a Ph.D. from the Electrical Engineering Department of the Air Force Institute of Technology and has applied his education to research and development activities at the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the National Reconnaissance Office. He is currently stationed at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico.

Colonel Nickolas Kioutas

Prior to becoming Project Manager, COL Kioutas graduated from the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Before attending the War College, he served in the Pentagon as the Chief of Staff for the Office of Process Innovation and Integration where he spearheaded the SECARMY and Chief of Staff of the Army's acquisition reform efforts.

COL Kioutas began his Army career in the Aviation branch, flying CH-47 Chinook helicopters, and commanding units in South Korea and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. After Company Command at Fort Bragg, and the Combined Logistics Captain's Career Course, he transitioned to the Acquisition Corps, and began his first acquisition assignment as a Combat Developer at the Army Cyber Center in Fort Gordon, Georgia. During this assignment, COL Kioutas began his longtime involvement with robotic and unmanned systems development which spanned the range of acquisition and command activities to include requirements development, science and technology development, program management, testing, sustainment, and operational command. Highlights include assignments as the Deputy Commander for Task Force Observe Detect Identify Neutralize (TF ODIN) in Iraq, the Product Manager Joint Robotics, the Product Manager Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, and the Product Manager Unmanned Aircraft Systems Modernization.

COL Kioutas is a native of Rolling Meadows, Illinois. He holds a BS from the United States Military Academy, West Point and Master's Degrees in Systems Engineering, Business Administration, Computer Information Systems, and Strategic Studies.

COL Kioutas is married to Shellie Kioutas, an Army veteran, with whom he raised four children; Alexa, Allina, Cassandra, and Nicko.

Colonel Patrick Williams

Commander, 2nd Weather Group, 557th Weather Wing, US Air Force

Col Patrick C. Williams is the Commander, 2d Weather Group, 557th Weather Wing, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. He leads more than 550 active duty, civil service and contract personnel comprised of six squadrons and eight geographically separated units on three continents. The group operates and sustains the Air Force’s $323 million strategic weather enterprise, delivering decision-quality, authoritative space and terrestrial environmental intelligence in support of national security objectives. Prior to his current assignment, Col Williams was the Space Branch Chief and Joint Staff Meteorological and Oceanographic Operations Officer on the Joint Staff. He was the Joint Chief of Staff’s focal point for all Department of Defense METOC activities and the Head of Delegation to NATO for METOC issues. Col Williams received his commission from the United States Air Force Academy in May 1998. He became well versed in aviation, space and Army weather operations and held a wide variety of positions to include squadron commander, command weather briefer, flight commander, staff weather officer, program element monitor, executive officer and aide-de-camp. Additionally, Col Williams also served two combat tours; the first in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM as a flight commander, in charge of two Battlefield Weather Teams. His second combat tour was in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM as the Squadron Commander of the 19th Expeditionary Weather Squadron in charge of 235 rotating Battlefield Weather Forecasters at 15 different Forward Operating Bases throughout Afghanistan.

Colonel Russell Teehan

SMC Portfolio Architect, AFSPC, US Air Force

Colonel Russell Teehan is the Portfolio Architect of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC). He leads a team of roughly 100 personnel charged with spearheading the Center’s activities to design an integrated space enterprise architecture and partner with other commercial, allied, government agencies and our industry partners to enable SMC to smartly design, rapidly acquire, and expeditiously integrate the weapon systems needed to support today’s fight and the battlefield of tomorrow. Col Teehan was commissioned in 1993 by USAF Academy. His career has included a variety of assignments ranging from basic weapons research at Air Force Research Laboratory, teaching Physics at USAF Academy, special programs management at the Space and Missiles Systems Center, and a multitude of Air Staff and OSD Pentagon staff assignments. He recently served as the Commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory Phillips Research Site where he led a team of 800 personnel and an annual budget of $300 million focused on advancing technologies to prototype the next generation of Air Force space capabilities. Col Teehan has two wonderful daughters – Emma (18) and Addyson (13).

Dr Douglas Hendrix

CEO, ExoAnalytic Solutions

Doug Hendrix is chief executive officer and co-founder of ExoAnalytic Solutions, Inc. In addition to his executive role, he serves as the Commercial Space sector president. For 25 years, Dr. Hendrix has developed advanced software solutions to enable the United States to maintain its technological superiority in EO/IR sensing for missile defense and space situational awareness. Dr. Hendrix has a broad professional background that ranges from research and development to commercial software development in the areas of atmospheric, underwater and nuclear explosions, hyper-velocity impacts, space weather, and the development of a commercial fusion reactor.
As a co-founder of ExoAnalytic Solutions, he had one major idea in mind for the company, which is to build a focused team comprised of the best and brightest in the industry to develop and field cutting edge technology to greatly surpass the state of the art. In his current role at ExoAnalytic Solutions, he remains deeply involved in technology development for both missile defense and space situational awareness.
Dr. Hendrix earned a B.A. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley and obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Irvine, and is the proud son of a former submarine officer.

Dr Grant Stokes

Division Head, Space Systems and Technology, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Dr. Grant H. Stokes is Head of the Space Systems and Technology Division of MIT Lincoln Laboratory. In this position, he is responsible for the Laboratory’s programs in space control and electro-optical systems and technology. In that capacity, Dr. Stokes supervised the demonstration and transition of the first space-based space-surveillance system to Air Force operations and has initiated programs to develop next-generation technology for establishing Space Situation Awareness (SSA). These programs include the Space Surveillance Telescope (SST), which will provide a 3.5-meter aperture prototype ground-based space surveillance search system, and a program to upgrade the Haystack Radar to W-band operations, yielding high resolution radar images of satellites.
Dr. Stokes has been a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). In that capacity, he was the Chairman of the 2006 SAB Summer Study on Space Survivability. In addition, he chaired the 2006 Science and Technology Review of the VS Directorate of Air Force Research Laboratory and the 2007 review of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).
Dr. Stokes was honored with the Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award for his four years of service to the Air Force Science Advisory Board.
Dr. Stokes was appointed an IEEE Fellow in 2010 for his leadership in the development and implementation of advanced space search systems.
Dr. Stokes was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2016 for innovations in systems for space situational awareness and the discovery of near-Earth asteroids.
Dr. Stokes directs the development and operations of the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program, which, as part of the NASA/Space Command partnership, has become the world’s premiere asteroid search capability, finding ~50% of the near-Earth asteroids discovered since 1998.
Dr. Stokes holds a Ph.D. degree in physics from Princeton University and is a member of the International Astronomical Union.

Dr Jaime Stearns

Space Control Mission Lead, Space Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, US Air Force

Dr. Jaime Stearns is the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate Space Control Mission Lead. She coordinates the Directorate’s research and development activities in Space Situational Awareness and Command & Control in support of defensive space operations.
Dr. Stearns joined the Space Vehicles Directorate of the AFRL as a National Research Council post-doctoral fellow. She became a civil servant a year later, founding and leading an AFOSR-funded research program using laser spectroscopy to explore new concepts for space propulsion and Space Situational Awareness.
She has authored or co-authored 24 peer-reviewed publications and holds an Associated Faculty position in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the University of New Mexico.

Dr Jim Baker

Dr. Baker joined the USMC in 1976, served as an Electronic Countermeasures Officer in the EA-6B Prowler, and retired in 2000. He has worked in data acquisition, instrumentation automation, and aircraft systems test and evaluation. His current assignment is Senior Principal Engineer with the Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity providing engineering support for USMC C4 systems test and engineering. He has published over 20 journal and conference papers on electrically small antenna design and optimization. His education includes a BS Electrical Engineering, an MS Systems Engineering, an MS National Resource Strategy, and a PhD Electrical Engineering.

Dr Mir Sadat

Director, National Security Council, Executive Office of the President / The White House

Dr. Mir Sadat is a Director of Defense Policy and Strategy at the U.S. National Security Council, where he leads the interagency on defense/space/maritime policy. Mir has over two decades of competitive corporate world, university, and defense/military experiences. His key assignments include Space Policy Strategist to the Chief of Naval Operations; Space Operations Officer to the Commander of U.S. Tenth Fleet; Special Advisor to the DIA Director; Strategic Advisor to the ISAF/USFOR-A Commander; and Professor of National Security Policy. Mir possesses native fluency in Dari and German, and holds a PhD from Claremont Graduate University.

Dr Natalya Bailey

CEO and Co-Founder, Accion Systems

Dr. Natalya Bailey is the CEO and co-founder at Accion Systems. Accion provides in-space propulsion engines for satellites and spacecraft. An Oregon native, Dr. Bailey moved to Cambridge, MA to complete her doctorate in space propulsion at MIT’s Space Propulsion Laboratory where she helped invent the first working prototype of an ion engine technology for small satellites, the first product at Accion. Prior to MIT, she assisted with the development of a chemical rocket that formed the basis for a start up. Dr. Bailey also has an M.S. from Duke University and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from San Diego State University.

Lieutenant Colonel Gary Thompson

Liuetenant Colonel Gary Thompson advises and assists the Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) Systems Directorate on matters concerning business practices to procure commercial satellite communications services and technology demonstrations to enable order of magnitude improvements in these commercial systems for DoD use. He also supports enterprise cryptographic solutions to include developing new architectures and modernization of legacy cryptographic systems.

Major Thompson entered the Air Force in 1999 as a graduate of Officer Training School following 7 years of service in the Minnesota Army National Guard. He has served in a variety of acquisition, business, information assurance and staff positions at Air Force Materiel Command and Air Force Space Command. He was mobilized in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. While deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, he served under United States Central Command at the 332nd AEW, Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan and the International Security Assistance Force. Major Thompson transitioned from active duty to the Air Force Reserves in 2009 where he continues to support MILSATCOM systems.

Lieutenant Colonel Yun Kyong Sung

C4I Interoperability Officer, J6, ROK JCS

Lt. Col. Yun Kyong Sung is an army officer in Republic of Korea. He graduated from the Korea Military Academy in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science degree in electronics. He obtained a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2004. He has served as a signal officer in the various echelons of ROK Army and also worked as an acquisition officer in Defense Acquisition Program Administration. Since 2018, he has been working in C4I division of ROK JCS.

Lieutenant Commander Steve Mansfield

After 30 years in the commercial world, including 12 years as a reservist, the initial post with the RNZN was managing projects in Navy Capability, delivering Sat TV, Wide band Satellite, and RHIB Tracking systems, before going to sea on HMNZS Te Kaha. A two year posting to the ANZAC Systems Program Office in Rockingham WA added interoperability and maintenance skills. Returning to NZ to work with Maritime lead, introducing new projects, such as Maritime Mission Critical Internet before joining C4ISR and being responsible for development and management of NAVWAR and Sat Coms capability for NZDF.

Major General Stephen Whiting

Commander, 14th Air Force and Deputy Joint Space Component Commander, US Air Force

As Commander, 14th Air Force, General Whiting leads more than 16,000 personnel responsible for providing strategic missile warning, nuclear command, control and communication, position, navigation and timing, space situational awareness, satellite operations, space launch and range operations. As Deputy JFSCC, he directs all assigned and attached USSTRATCOM space forces on behalf of the JFSCC, providing tailored, responsive and synchronized theater and global space effects in support of national security and combatant commander objectives. He is also responsible for protecting and defending critical U.S. and allied space capabilities.

General Whiting is a 1989 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is a space operations officer, and has commanded the 13th Space Warning Squadron, Clear Air Force Station, Alaska; the 614th Air and Space Operations Center/Joint Space Operations Center, Vandenberg AFB and the 21st Space Wing, Peterson AFB, Colorado.

The general’s staff assignments include positions at Headquarters, United States Air Force; United States Space Command; United States Strategic Command; the Chief of Naval Operations’ Strategic Studies Group; the Office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense; and Headquarters, Air Force Space Command.

Major Randall "Glint" Cartner

Major Randall “Glint” Cartner, US Army, is the Assistant Space Portfolio Manager at the Assured PNT Cross Functional Team, US Army Futures Command. His 20 year career includes service in the US Air Force, Army National Guard and US Army, integrating technical capabilities at the operational and tactical levels of warfare, conducting space & nuclear missile operations, supporting special operations forces and administrating sensitive programs. His previous assignment was the Chief of the Space Operations Division for the Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of Marshall Islands.

Moderated by: Dr Michael J Starks

Dr. Michael Starks is the Space Environment Mission Area Lead within the Space Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory. He provides strategic guidance and coordinates across the civil and DoD acquisition and operations communities to maximize the impact to the joint warfighter of the directorate’s space environment science and technology investment.
He is also the Program Manager and Principal Investigator for the Wave-Particle Interactions Program and leads the Laboratory’s technical efforts in attributing environmental anomalies to satellite systems. He has served as Deputy Space Situational Awareness Mission Area Lead and Principal Investigator for the Demonstrations and Science Experiments (DSX) flight experiment.
Dr. Starks began his civil service career in 1996 as an Air Force Senior Palace Knight fellow while still pursuing his Doctor of Science degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Upon receiving his ScD, he worked for AFRL as a bench scientist in wave propagation and signal processing at Hanscom AFB, Mass., before relocating to Kirtland AFB, N.M, in 2008.
He has authored or co-authored 19 peer-reviewed publications on various aspects of the space environment and is a licensed Professional Engineer

Moderated by: Mr Arlen Biersgreen

Arlen Biersgreen is an astronautical engineer with the Air Force Research Laboratories, Space Vehicles Directorate, Prototypes & Flight Experiments Branch (AFRL/RVEP). He currently serves as Program Manager for the Navigation Technology Satellite – 3 (NTS-3) program, which is the Air Force’s premier prototype in advanced technologies and concepts for resilient satellite navigation, planned for launch in 2022. Mr. Biersgreen has 11 years of experience as a defense contractor, federal civil servant, and production control manager in the aerospace manufacturing industry. He completed a M.S. in Astronautical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2016.

Mr Hirohisa Mori

Director, National Space Policy Secretariat, Cabinet Office of Japan

Mr. Hirohisa Mori is Director of National Space Policy Secretariat, Cabinet Office of Japan. This is the second time for him to work at this office since 2008-2010. Prior to current position, he had worked at Ministry of Defense as a government official since his graduation of Bachelor of Law, Tokyo University in 1992. His responsibility covers policy, legal and international affairs related to Self Defense Force. He served as First Secretary at Japanese Embassy in Canada, and as Visiting Research Fellow at International National Strategic Study, National Defense University of USA.

Mr Jacob Campbell

Resilient Embedded GPS/INS R-EGI, AFLCMC/WNY,

Dr. Jacob Campbell is a Principal Electronics Engineer and is serving as the Resilient EGI (R-EGI) Chief Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB. Dr. Campbell received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University where he worked as a research associate for the Ohio University Avionics Engineering Center. While at Ohio University he interned with Honeywell Labs. His research interests positioning navigation and timing (PNT) architectures to enable robust & resilient PNT in GPS degraded environments.

Mr Jay Santee

Vice President, Strategic Space Operations, The Aerospace Corporation

Jay G. Santee is vice president, Strategic Space Operations, Defense Systems Group. In this role, he oversees the company’s support of the U.S. Air Force’s Space Warfighting Construct, which combines transformational and warfighting focused command initiatives to maintain space superiority in the 21st century. He also leads the corporation’s support to the Space Security and Defense Program and U.S. Strategic Command.

Prior to joining Aerospace, Santee was outcome leader for Resilient Affordable Space at MITRE, where he was responsible for directing and shaping MITRE’s contributions to the national security space enterprise’s fielding of a resilient, affordable space force.

Santee served 33 years in the United States Air Force, retiring as a major general in 2014. Santee’s last assignment was as deputy director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. In this capacity, he played a key leadership role in the removal and destruction of declared Syrian chemical weapons materials aboard the MV Cape Ray. Santee’s other assignments in the Air Force included, among others: acting deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy, vice commander of the 14th Air Force, Director of the Space Operations Center (now the Joint Space Operations Center), commander of the 21st Space Wing, and as an operations division chief at U.S. Space Command.

The Aerospace Corporation is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the objective application of science and technology toward the solution of critical issues affecting the nation’s space program.

Previously, Kevin served as the director of the Assured PNT Cross-Functional team for the U.S. Army, where he was responsible for addressing the full-scope of Army PNT capabilities and challenges, reporting directly to the Under Secretary of the Army. Prior to this, Kevin served as the Direct Reporting program manager for PNT, where he created the Army’s Assured PNT Program and introduced the PNT System of Systems Architecture.

Prior to work with PNT initiatives, Kevin was the founder and chief executive officer for Harvest Applied Technologies, a company focused on the application of advanced sensor and signal processing technologies in the field of food safety and quality. He made significant contributions to this field with the support of federal agencies including the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, and the National Science Foundation. Kevin has also served in management and engineering roles in the defense industry in the fields of digital, radar, and electronic weapons systems design and automated testing. Kevin is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and served as a Force Reconnaissance team leader.

Kevin earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Florida. He is a member of the U.S. Army Acquisition Corps and has achieved Level III DAWIA certification for both program management and systems engineering. He’s also a member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institute of Navigation. Kevin has been very involved in IEEE technical societies and conferences and has participated as author and session chair at several conferences.

Mr Lars Hoffman

SVP, Launch , Rocket Lab

As Senior Vice President of Global Launch Services, Lars Hoffman is responsible for driving business development and customer experience strategy for Rocket Lab. With more than 30 years of experience in national security and aerospace, Lars has a deep knowledge of the launch industry.

Prior to joining Rocket Lab, Lars most recently oversaw government sales at SpaceX, where he was responsible for National Security Space strategy and business development. Lars also led a distinguished career in the United States Air Force. He holds advanced engineering degrees from the United States Air Force Academy, the Air Force Institute of Technology and the United States Air Force Test Pilot School. He has also earned national security degrees from MIT, Air University and the National Defense University and an MBA from UCLA.

Mr Mike Lewis

Chief Innovation Officer, NanoRacks

Michael is currently the Chief Innovation Officer at NanoRacks, LLC, where he is responsible for overseeing the technical, scientific, and imaginative direction for the company. He has developed, built, and flown experiment platforms to the ISS, including the NRCSD (the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer) system which deploys satellites from the ISS, a satellite deployer that deploys satellites off the Northrup Grumman Cygnus spacecraft, as well as a number of unique space platforms that enable space-based science, research, and education.

Mr Richard Cobb

Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, US Air Force Institute of Technology

Dr. Richard G. Cobb is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering with over 35 years of aerospace experience. Over the past 19 years at the Air Force Institute of Technology, he has taught graduate level courses in satellite design, optimal control, trajectory optimization, system identification and spacecraft control systems. Recent research work includes developing optimal trajectory plans for Global Strike missions, optimal aircraft air and ground collision avoidance algorithms for manned and unmanned systems, maneuver planning for satellite rendezvous and proximity operations, dynamics and control techniques for lightweight space optics and optimal/novel sensor systems and architectures for enhancing Space Situational Awareness.

Ms Andrea Loper

Ms. Loper presently serves as the principal acquisition program manager for the Space Vehicles Directorate at Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She recently led a $340M Contract Award effort for the Integrated Experiments and Evaluation Division, launched the initial AFRL collaborative Commercially Augmented Mission Operations (CAMO) Campus and Commercial Consortium, and supported the AFRL Space Accelerator program. Ms. Loper possess over 10 years of program management experience across the space enterprise. From 2009 – 2013, she served as the program integrator and segments lead for the U.S. DoD Enhanced Polar Protected SatComm System and returned to SATCOM in the Wideband Program Office in 2016. She joined the U.S. Government as a Presidential Management Fellow 2008 at the Space and Missile System Center in Los Angeles from a 6-year position in Germany, where she managed operations in Kuwait, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq as a support services contractor.

Ms Clare Grason

Clare A. Grason is Chief, Commercial Satellite Communications Office, Air Force Space Command, Washington, D.C. She is responsible for delivering commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) capabilities to support the joint warfighter, federal agencies and international partners. Her portfolio includes the Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services (EMSS) Program Office, the EMSS Capabilities Office and the COMSATCOM Solutions Group.

EMSS is an $800 million global satellite program that provides the Department of Defense, federal and coalition partners with unlimited access to the commercial Iridium constellation, a mesh-network of 66 on-orbit cross-linked satellites in low-earth-orbit, through a dedicated, EMSS controlled gateway.
The COMSATCOM Solutions Group acquires any commercial satellite capability for any customer, anywhere, and has $5 billion under management.

Prior to this role, Ms. Grason was the SATCOM Division Chief, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). In this role she managed the Department of Defense Enterprise Gateways Program Office, the SATCOM Operations Integration Branch, and the COMSATCOM portfolio described above, prior to its Congressionally-directed transfer to the AFSPC. Other assignments include Program Manager, EMSS and Program Manager for a classified telecommunications system within DISA’s National Leadership Command Capabilities Center (NLCC). Ms. Grason began her career in government with DISA as a contracting officer, and served as the Chief, Special Projects Contracting Branch, which held a contracts portfolio valued at over $2 billion.

Prior to joining the government, Ms. Grason was a retirement funds analyst for T. Rowe Price.

Ms. Grason received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from West Virginia University, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Ms. Grason is DAWIA Level 3 certified in contracting.

Ms Deanna Ryals

Chief Partnerships Officer, SMC, US Air Force

Ms. Deanna L. Ryals is the Chief Partnership Officer, Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), Los Angeles, AFB CA. In this role, she is responsible for driving partnerships with Allies, Inter-Agencies and Commercial partners to fill capability and architectural gaps across the entire military space enterprise.

Previously, Ms. Ryals was the Chief, International Programs Division (MCI) in the MILSATCOM Systems Directorate (MC) at SMC. Ms. Ryals continues to perform these duties as SMC CPO. Major contributions include developing partnerships with nine allies across the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) and Advanced Extermely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite programs, executing $3B in international partner contributions, and spearheading the first ever Allied hosting of a US DoD National Security Space (NSS) payload for the Enhanced Polar SATCOM-Recapitalization program, bringing protected MILSATCOM to Allied warfighters in the polar region.
In 1988, she entered federal government service working for the Army Corps of Engineers. For more than 25 years, she has supported the Department of Defense (DoD) in both civil service and industry.

From 1988 to 2001, Ms. Ryals supported numerous Army and Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) organizations by providing acquisition and financial management support. In 2001, she joined the Secretary of the Air Force (SAF) Space Acquisition Directorate (AQS) monitoring the $10B MILSATCOM terminals acquisition portfolio. In 2007, she took over as the single SAF/AQ focal point for all MILSATCOM international activities, championing the development of MOUs with Australia culminating in a $6.2B partnership and five Allies culminating in a $10.5B partnership (the largest AF International Armaments Cooperative Program for a space capability) expanding the WGS constellation with two Allied funded satellites. In 2012, Ms. Ryals became the PM for Acquisition Strategy Development under the Air Force Program Executive Officer for Space Launch (AFPEO/SL) in Chantilly, Virginia. In this role, Ms. Ryals was instrumental in securing DoD Acquisition Executive approval of a new acquisition strategy for future DoD NSS launches that introduced a competitive environment for all certified U.S. launch service providers. Ms. Ryals rejoined MILSATCOM in January 2013, as the Chief of International Programs.

Ms Demaryl Singleton

Program Manager at DoD Teleport Program Office , DISA

Ms. Demaryl D. Singleton is the Program Manager (PM) of the DoD Teleport Program Office (TPO), within the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). DoD Teleport is a $3.1B program and one of two Acquisition Category I (ACAT I) programs at DISA. Through a multigenerational, evolutionary development approach, TPO integrates and implements satellite terminals and the ground station baseband equipment to enable secured voice, data, and video communications to deployed warfighters enhancing situational awareness and information superiority. As the PM, Ms. Singleton leads the program and is responsible for the design, development, system engineering, acquisition testing, integration, implementation and life cycle management of the Teleport System to satisfy Joint Requirements Oversight Council validated operational requirements. Ms. Singleton was appointed as PM in November 2015. Ms. Singleton previously served as the Deputy Program Manager for the DoD Teleport Program. Ms. Singleton previously deployed and served dual-headed as the 408th Deputy Commander/Deputy Director of Contracting Army Contracting Command – Kuwait. While in this role, she held an unlimited contracting officer warrant providing direct contracting support to ARCENT, Office of Military Cooperation-Kuwait, Defense Representation-Pakistan, US Embassy and general support to other units in the CENTCOM AOR. Ms. Singleton led and mentored Military, DoD civilians and contractors in planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, and supervising all actions required to provide approximately $55 million annually in contracting support for Operations Enduring Freedom, Defense of Kuwait, and ARCENT multi-national exercises. Ms. Singleton previously served as a Loaned Executive on detail to the Combine Federal Campaign (CFC) for the Chesapeake Bay Area providing intensive planning, training, management, marketing, program implementation, reporting, and evaluation in fund raising. Her efforts led the team to exceed the overall goal of $6.7 million for a total amount $6.8 million dollars for Chesapeake Bay Area CFC and ranked 3rd in the country for the 2011 CFC Campaign. Ms. Singleton also served as a Supervisory Program Analyst while assigned to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), providing acquisition oversight and budget execution in support of the transformation efforts for the Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staffs initiatives for the Chief Technology Officer. She also served as a Program Manager for Acquisition of Services in the Program Executive Office, Satellite, Teleport and Services (PEO-STS) and Chief of Contract Management Branch, GIG Enterprise Services Engineering for DISA. In addition, she has served a Contracting Officer for the United States Air Force, Navy, Army and General Services Administration. Ms. Singleton holds a B.S. in Management from Park University and a Master’s Degree in Procurement and Acquisition Management, Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) with an emphasis in Information Technology Management from Webster University 2012. While working for the Department of Defense, Ms. Singleton completed the Executive Program Managers Course (EPMC) PMT-402 November 2018 and the Program Managers (PMT) 10-week Course November 2017. She obtained her DAWIA Level III Certification in Contracting, Information Technology Management and Program Management from the Defense Acquisition University (DAU). She is a member of the Defense Acquisition Corps, American Society of Military Comptrollers Association and Defense Acquisition University voting member. Ms. Singleton holds numerous awards to include a Commanders Award for Civilian Service Deployment, Civilian of the Year Air Force Academy (1992) and a Civilian Meritorious award from the Navy for she played a major role in the implementation of the Navy wide Star Service Program (1998).

Ms Stacy Kubicek

Vice President, Mission Solutions, Lockheed Martin

Stacy Kubicek is the Deputy Vice President for the Lockheed Martin Space Mission Solutions line of business, where she is responsible for approximately 2,500 employees and an annual sales base of over $525M, in addition to driving cross-Line of Business synergies and strategies.
Mission Solutions develops, delivers, and operates solutions for commercial, military and intelligence users. These mission critical efforts include development of innovative enterprise, cloud and application-based solutions for mission management, command and control, collection orchestration and tasking, processing, data analysis and analytics along with premier operations and sustainment of space-based programs.
Ms. Kubicek has an extensive background in program management, capture management, and execution of portfolios spanning the software development lifecycle. She has run programs for multiple Customers across both the Defense and Intelligence Communities, including negotiating and execution of international business.
Originally from Lincoln, Nebraska, Ms. Kubicek holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona, with minors in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. She holds an MBA, with a concentration in Information Technology, from the University of Denver. Stacy began her career with Lockheed Martin in Northern Virginia as a Software Engineer for the SI organization and has had the opportunity to work across several locations, including Colorado, Arizona, Maryland and Virginia.

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Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Center for Space Research and Analysis Associate Director , US Air Force Institute of Technology

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Joining the RAF in 1991 as an RAF Regiment Officer he fulfilled a number of Flight Commander roles before he sustained an injury that precluded him from staying in the RAF Regiment. He transferred to the Operations Support (Flight Operations) specialization on its inception on 1 Apr 1997 and as a Flight Operations Officer he has served at multi-engine, fast-jet and rotary-wing aircraft units. Operational tours have included Kosovo and multiple tours in Afghanistan. Staff tours have included Headquarters, instructional and Career Management roles.
On promotion to Wing Commander he was selected for Advanced Command and Staff Training and has served on the Air Staff in the Ministry Of Defence where he was responsible for RAF International Policy and engagement for North and South America, Australasia, South East Asia and the Far East regions. He served in a unique Command role at RAF Shawbury as Officer Commanding of both Operations Wing and Administration Wing and also Deputy Station Commander. A tour in Air Resources and Plans followed Command, during which he conducted a 3 month Secondment with KPMG, and he was Chief Of Staff in the RAF Transformation Team before taking on the role of SO1 Space within the Air Capability area at HQ Air Command.

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View detailsWorld Teleport AssociationSupportershttp://www.worldteleport.orgSince 1985, the World Teleport Association (WTA) has been the only trade association that focuses on the business of satellite communications from the ground up. At the core of its membership are the world's most innovative operators of teleports, from independents to multinationals, niche service providers to global carriers. WTA is dedicated to advocating for the interests of teleport operators in the global telecommunications market and promoting excellence in teleport business practice, technology and operations. Companies that do business with teleports also find that WTA is the best investment they can make to open new channels to the industry.

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Officina Stellare

Officina Stellare is an international engineering company, with a solid background in the design and manufacturing of opto-mechanical instrumentation for Ground based telescopes and Space applications. The company can easily be referenced worldwide for its expertise in managing complex engineering projects, delivering complete turn-key, custom design, optical systems. Officina Stellare is involved in challenging projects: from space-borne telescopes designed for Earth observation constellation projects, to ground based optical station for SSA/SST, Laser Comm and Weapons Ranges applications.

PlaneWave

PlaneWave Instruments produces Off-The-Shelf, high-quality astronomy products of unprecedented value.
In 2008, PlaneWave developed and championed the CDK (Corrected Dall-Kirkham) telescope, a revolutionary new optical system that was designed to excel at imaging on large format CCD cameras. These telescopes meet the demands of researchers, serious imagers and visual observers. The CDK is an excellent value for a telescope of featuring high quality and large apertures. Today, PlaneWave manufactures CDK telescopes from 12.5” to 1-meter in aperture.
Not limited to optics, PlaneWave also makes a full line of observatory class direct drive telescope mounts. PlaneWave’s new groundbreaking L-Series Mounts have rocked the astronomy market through their high performance, low costs and pragmatic design.
PlaneWave Instruments is a privately held company headquartered in Rancho Dominguez, CA. with a large manufacturing operation on Michigan.

XTAR, LLC

XTAR, LLC is a privately owned satellite operator delivering X-band services to U.S. and Allied government users. XTAR’s two satellite payloads, with high-powered global, fixed and steerable spot beams, are WGS-compatible and readily support mobile applications in the harshest environments. Available coverage is from Denver east to Singapore.

Media Partners

Space News

Since 1989, SpaceNews has provided decision-makers throughout the industry with timely and comprehensive space and satellite news, giving them the competitive intelligence they need to succeed. Whether it's the latest trend in military space capabilities, the next space mission or breaking developments in satellite telecommunications, SpaceNews keeps them informed.

Technologies.org

Technologies.org is a collaborative research tool maintained and supported by team of market analysts to track, monitor and share vital information on the latest technology trends by following money trail of government grants and venture capital deals. Sharing market intelligence data helps all parties develop a more complete integrated picture of market and technology trends.

SecurityClearedJobs.com

SecurityClearedJobs.com is an on-line job board designed and marketed to attract candidates who work within Defence, Government and Nuclear sectors. We advertise 1000’s of job opportunities both on a Permanent and Contract basis covering opportunities within all industry sectors. Visit our site www.SecurityClearedJobs.com to search for your next job opportunity.

Global Military Communications

Global Military Communications is a publication that tracks the trends, drivers and technology that fuel the military communications sector. Communications continue to be the lynchpin of modern warfare and is crucial to any military campaign. The sector is going through unprecedented change as militaries and governments across the world move towards a network centric approach to their communications. From operations in war zones to homeland security and disaster recovery operations, Global Military Communications provides you with the latest communications developments on land, sea, and in the air.

Combat Aircraft magazine

With in-depth editorial coverage alongside the finest imagery from the world’s foremost aviation photographers, Combat Aircraft is America’s best-selling military aviation magazine. With thought-provoking opinion pieces, detailed information and rare archive imagery, Combat Aircraft is your one-stop-source of military aviation news and features from across the globe. Visit www.combataircraft.net for more information.

Warfare Today

Covering today’s military in the modern battlespace, Warfare.Today is an online magazine and social media network devoted to current military operations and development, technology, defence news and security analysis. Warfare.Today draws on a massive range of sources to deliver holistic reporting across the defence and military sector for a growing and targeted audience. Using best practice SEO, Warfare.Today’s articles frequently rank on the first page of Google search results.

AirForces Monthly

AirForces Monthly magazine is devoted to modern military aircraft and their air arms, it provides the best military aviation news coverage from its global network of correspondents and is essential reading for anyone seeking a well-informed view. AirForces Monthly has built up a formidable reputation worldwide by reporting from places not generally covered by other military magazines.

RF Globalnet

VertMarkets, Inc., publishes industry-specific trade magazines that serve key decision-makers and professionals in a select set of targeted vertical markets. As a complement to VertMarkets' leading online industry Web sites, the magazines offer readers compelling editorial, providing news analysis, market trends, technical reviews, case studies, technical papers, and other educational articles authored by some of the most respected experts in the industries we serve. Additionally, each magazine has a comprehensive Buyer's Guide section designed to promote the latest innovations and products from the leading companies in the market. VertMarkets' circulation model aligns directly with the needs of our readers, as our magazines are aggressively distributed at and around many key industry Tradeshows throughout the year. VertMarkets plans to continue building on the support we give our readers by expanding our magazine publishing business.

IHS Janes

With a legacy of over 100 years as Jane's, IHS Aerospace, Defence & Security delivers the world’s leading defence and security insight to help you make critical decisions. Our renowned open-source intelligence and powerful analytical tools encompass data on equipment, technology, parts, standards and logistics, as well as objective analysis of markets, programmes and budgets, risk and capabilities assessments, training and consulting services. Government, military and defense organizations gain insight into, plan for and act upon critical threats in the current global national-security environment. Businesses leverage tools and resources for more cost-effective defense-system design, delivery and support.
Over 3000 thought leaders provide you with actionable intelligence for expedited and improved decision making. Customers, prospects and the media outlets alike rely upon IHS thought leaders for analysis, forecasts, and perspectives on topics, events, and issues that impact the global business landscape.

Epicos

Epicos is a global, multifaceted portal providing Aerospace and Defense industries around the world with business intelligence and active support to access opportunities on international procurements, industrial cooperation and offsets. Epicos has carried out extensive industry analysis and mapping of capabilities of A&D Industries and offers this knowledge to its members helping them to identify business opportunities and to build strategic alliances. Additionally, Epicos supports the global A&D industry through a wide range of on-line services and products including but not limited to: a large online procurement database, an updated Business Directory, an e-library with extensive information regarding procurement and offsets processes systems and an up to the minute news database.

GVF (Global VSAT Forum)

GVF is the single and unified voice of the global satellite industry. Founded in 1997, it brings together organisations engaged in the delivery of advanced broadband and narrowband satellite services to consumers, and commercial and government enterprises worldwide. Headquartered in London, GVF is an independent, non-partisan and non-profit organisation with 230+ members from more than 100 countries. The broad-based membership represents every major world region and every sector of the satellite industry, including fixed and mobile satellite operators, satellite network operators, teleports, satellite earth station manufacturers, system integrators, value added and enhanced service providers, telecom carriers, consultants, law firms, and users.

Defense Express

Limited Liability Company “DEFENSE EXPRESS MEDIA AND CONSULTING” highlights events in security, defense and military cooperation areas. Regular information products of the company:
- Daily News Wire and Analysis on http://www.defense-ua.com;
- Weekly newsletter “Ukrainian Defense Survey”;
- “DEFENSE EXPRESS” Magazine;
- “Ukrainian Defense Review” Magazine (in English);
- Book series “Weapons of Ukraine”.
Company also provides advice and assistance based on deep analytical skills and knowledge of the conditions and characteristics of Ukrainian military market to companies, government bodies and intermediaries in the implementation of their strategy, relating to finding new partners and interests promoting.

Air International

Over the years, AIR International has established an unrivalled reputation for authoritative reporting and coverage across the full spectrum of aviation subjects. With more pages than ever, all still dedicated to commercial and military aviation, we have more correspondents and top aviation writers from around the world, offering even more exciting news, features and stunning photography.

Space Careers

Run by space professionals, Space Careers is the fastest and most cost-effective way for employers and recruitment agencies to find skilled candidates within the space and defence industry, all at a fraction of the cost of traditional recruitment channels. Most of the leading European space and defence industry players have already chosen to include Space Careers in their recruitment campaigns and we are confident that your Company could also benefit from our targeted audience.

World Teleport Association

Since 1985, the World Teleport Association (WTA) has been the only trade association that focuses on the business of satellite communications from the ground up. At the core of its membership are the world's most innovative operators of teleports, from independents to multinationals, niche service providers to global carriers. WTA is dedicated to advocating for the interests of teleport operators in the global telecommunications market and promoting excellence in teleport business practice, technology and operations. Companies that do business with teleports also find that WTA is the best investment they can make to open new channels to the industry.

Satellite Interference Reduction Group (IRG)

Satellite Interference Reduction Group (IRG) is the global industry organisation, established to combat the increasing and costly problem of satellite radio frequency interference. It also as a group focuses on the future of satellite communication technology and the effects or issues of that technology relating to interference. IRG has a number of practical initiatives, all aimed at reducing satellite interference, including establishing Carrier ID, Training & Certification and Type Approvals. The group itself comprises working groups, chaired by key industry experts, charged with the task of establishing the practical initiatives and obtaining the support of the entire industry.

Homeland Security

HOMELAND SECURITY is a publishing house that produces specialist periodicals. “Homeland Security“ is a quarterly specialist periodical in German language and “Global Security“ is released twice a year in English language. They focus on international political, scientific, technical and additional up-to-date challenges arising from the sectors of safety and security, civil protection, disaster assistance and security research. The periodicals aim at decision makers in politics, ministries, public services and industry. Our specialist editorial team is located all over the world (e. g. USA, Canada, Australia, Asia). Accordingly, reporting is being carried out on the spot.
Please have a look at a sample issue of our magazine “Global Security”: http://www.homeland-sec.de/en/epaper-global-security/

Microwave Journal

Microwave Journal provides leading-edge technical content for RF, microwave and wireless engineers worldwide. MWJ the magazine reaches 50,000 qualified subscribers with practical design application articles for working engineers. MWJournal.com delivers the latest news, events, webinars, whitepapers, videos and newsletters to RF/microwave professionals. EDI CON China and USA events bring industry and engineers together for information exchange and education. For over 60 years, Microwave Journal has been THE resource for engineers who are developing infrastructure for the next-generation of wireless and defense technologies.
www.mwjournal.com

Space Data Association

The Space Data Association Limited (SDA) is a non-profit international association of satellite operators that supports the controlled, reliable and efficient sharing of data critical to the safety and integrity of the space environment and the RF spectrum. It maintains the Space Data Center, a database of high-accuracy orbital information, which is operated by Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) of Exton, PA. Established in the Isle of Man the SDA is open to all satellite operators and other participants. Its membership comprises many of the world’s major satellite communications companies Membership information can be found at www.space-data.org

Via Satellite

Via Satellite is the leading global satellite magazine, providing expert business analysis and technical insights into the satellite, telecom, wireless and space industries. The readers of Via Satellite are provided with timely and valuable editorial, essential in remaining competitive and profitable in the global satellite marketplace. For more information on our products and to sign up for free trial subscriptions go to http://www.viasatellite.com .

Satnews Publishers

SatNews is a leading provider of satellite events, news, publications, research and other satellite industry information in the commercial and military enterprises worldwide.
SatNews hosts to the SmallSat Symposium and the Satellite Innovation conference, hosted in Silicon Valley.
SatNews include Daily and Weekly News Services and SatMagazine and MilsatMagazine, published monthly. satnews.com

Armada International

ARMADA INTERNATIONAL is leading defence magazine which reports on and analyses defence systems, equipment and technology. Together with its Compendium supplements, ARMADA provides defence planners in the militaries, in government, in procurement and in the defence industry itself with the information they need to plan their strategies.

Military Systems and Technology

Military Systems & Technology is a comprehensive web portal, design agency and publication designed for the International Defence & Aerospace Industry. It is a source of daily information for Manufacturers, OEM’S, System Integrators and Contractors. We even have Government & Military Readers. The portal encompasses all aspects of Military equipment, technology, design and services.
www.militarysystems-tech.com
info@militarysystems-tech.com
+44 (0)1392 881545

Aviation News

As Britain’s longest established monthly aviation journal, Aviation News is renowned for providing the best coverage of every branch of aviation. Now incorporating Classic Aircraft, each issue features the latest news and in-depth features, plus firsthand accounts from pilots putting you in the cockpit. Covering both modern military and civil aircraft, as well as classic types from yesteryear, it features subjects from World War Two, through the Cold War years to present day. Aviation News brings you the past, present and future of flight.

Everything RF

everything RF - www.everythingRF.com keeps you up to date with the RF & Microwave Industry. We publish industry news, white papers and technical articles. We have the largest RF & Microwave product database on the internet which consists of product catalogs from over 500 Manufacturers.
Use parametric search tools to narrow down on products based on your requirement. Download datasheets, compare products and get quotations. Quotations are routed to the manufacturers (or their distributors) who get back to you with the details. Visit www.everythingRF.com to learn more.

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WHAT IS CPD?

CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development’. It is essentially a philosophy,
which maintains that in order to be effective, learning should be organised and
structured. The most common definition is:

‘A commitment to structured skills and knowledge enhancement for Personal or Professional
competence’

CPD is a common requirement of individual membership with professional bodies and
Institutes. Increasingly, employers also expect their staff to undertake regular
CPD activities.

Undertaken over a period of time, CPD ensures that educational qualifications do
not become obsolete, and allows for best practice and professional standards to
be upheld.

CPD can be undertaken through a variety of learning activities including instructor
led training courses, seminars and conferences, e:learning modules or structured
reading.

CPD AND PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTES

There are approximately 470 institutes in the UK across all industry sectors, with
a collective membership of circa 4 million professionals, and they all expect their
members to undertake CPD.

For some institutes undertaking CPD is mandatory e.g. accountancy and law, and linked
to a licence to practice, for others it’s obligatory. By ensuring that their members
undertake CPD, the professional bodies seek to ensure that professional standards,
legislative awareness and ethical practices are maintained.

CPD Schemes often run over the period of a year and the institutes generally provide
online tools for their members to record and reflect on their CPD activities.

TYPICAL CPD SCHEMES AND RECORDING OF CPD (CPD points and hours)

Professional bodies and Institutes CPD schemes are either structured as ‘Input’
or ‘Output’ based.

‘Input’ based schemes list a precise number of CPD hours that individuals must achieve
within a given time period. These schemes can also use different ‘currencies’ such
as points, merits, units or credits, where an individual must accumulate the number
required. These currencies are usually based on time i.e. 1 CPD point = 1 hour of
learning.

‘Output’ based schemes are learner centred. They require individuals to set learning
goals that align to professional competencies, or personal development objectives.
These schemes also list different ways to achieve the learning goals e.g. training
courses, seminars or e:learning, which enables an individual to complete their CPD
through their preferred mode of learning.

As a formal provider of CPD certified activities, SMI Group can provide an indication
of the learning benefit gained and the typical completion. However, it is ultimately
the responsibility of the delegate to evaluate their learning, and record it correctly
in line with their professional body’s or employers requirements.

GLOBAL CPD

Increasingly, international and emerging markets are ‘professionalising’ their workforces
and looking to the UK to benchmark educational standards. The undertaking of CPD
is now increasingly expected of any individual employed within today’s global marketplace.

CPD Certificates

We can provide a certificate for all our accredited events. To request a CPD certificate for a conference , workshop, master classes you have attended please email events@smi-online.co.uk